My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
BRENT SCOWCROFTI think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they’re nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it’s dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn’t share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they’ve gone back and forth.
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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don’t agree with that, because I don’t think we’re capable of doing that.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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